Union Township (part 2 of 2)

SAMUEL G. WHITLOCK, farmer and stock-raiser, section 27, postoffice Reeds. The subject of this sketch is a native of Tennessee, born March 12, 1832. When he was a child of three years his parents immigrated to southwest Missouri, settling near Springfield, in Green county, where he attained his manhood and acquired a fair education for those days. At the age of twenty he crossed the plains and mountains of the West to the gold fields of California, where he remained three years; he returned via the water route to New Orleans and home to Green county, Mo. The following year he bought up a herd of cattle and drove them to Nappa county, Cal., and disposed of them to a good advantage, returning via Aspinwall and the island of Cuba, vehere he made quite an extensive visit; from Havana, Cuba, he came to New York and home via Niagara Falls, Chicago and other places of interest. He was married in Jasper county. Mo., March 24, 1858, to Miss Margaret J. Hacknaj', a native of Indiana, who was reared and educated in Johnson county, Mo. The same year he purchased a farm on Dry Fork, where he lived until the exigencies of war caused him to abandon his home and seek protection elsewhere, the actions and speeches of Mr. Whitlock in favor of the Union making it necessary that he "stop not upon the order of his going, but go at once." Being attacked upon the way by a band of bushwhackers, he managed to get his familj^ through safely by forfeiting considerable of his property. Leaving his family at Springfield, which place w-as garrisoned by United States troops, he took up arms under the Federal flag, enlisting as a private in Company D of the Eighth Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, and went immediately into active service. He participated in the battles of Carthage, Springfield, Lexington, and Little Rock, Ark., where he received a severe gun-shot wound in the thigh, disabling him for some time; convalesced in time to participate in the raid against Price and Marmaduke in Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri. He was discharged at St. Louis, Mo., in December, 1865. The following spring he purchased the farm he now owns and occupies - Oakdale. His family consists of two sons and four daughters: Flora C, wife of Frank Garrison; James R., Rosetta L., George F., Mary E., and Alga. Mr. Whitlock is a self-made man with all the term implies. He started out in early manhood to carve out a fortune, and was succeeding when the war set him back to first principles. Not being discouraged he again started in, and has accumulated a fine property. He is interested in Clydesdale and thoroughbred horses and has on his farm some tine animals; also has a herd of wellgraded Durham and Devonshire cattle. Mr. Whitlock is withal a clever, sociable gentleman and a prominent, public-spirited citizen.

JAMES E. WILLOUGHBY, farmer, section 21, post-office Reeds, was born in Allen county, Ky., Jan. 3, 1844. His parents immigrated to southwest Missouri and settled on Jenkins Creek in Jasper county when he was seven years of age, where he spent his time until the breaking out of the civil war. Though a young man and reared to pro-slavery ideas he was from the first a strong Union man, and he early became a member of Captain Yamal's Company, Forty-second Regiment E. M. M., and subsequently went into the quartermaster's department, and served Uncle Sam in that capacity four years in Kansas and Arkansas. At the close of the war he returned to Jasper count}', and was married Jan. 3, 1867, to Miss Martha A. Hood, a native of Jasper county, daughter of J. N. Hood, deceased. Of this union there are four children: Eldora, born April 10, 1870; Belle, born May 30, 1872; Austin, born July 20, 1874; and Hattie, born May 25, 1881. The year after his marraige he came to live at his present residence. His farm consists of eighty acres well situated on the Sarcoxie and Carthage road.

HON. JOHN T. WILLOUGHBY, farmer and stock-raiser, section 16, post-office Sarcoxie, was born in Allen county, Ky., Jan. 18, 1834, and was there reared to the age of seventeen. His youth was spent in acquiring an education with the limited means at his disposal, and working on the farm with his father, William Willoughby, a native of Kentucky, who though an owner of slaves was a staunch Union man. He immigrated with his family to southwest Missouri in 1851, and settled within one mile of where his sou John now lives; he died in Newton county, Mo., Nov. 20, 1861, aged sixtyone years. Our subject went to Newton county in 1854, where he erected a saw-mill and eno^aged in the lumber business, and was married there Jan. 21, 1858, to Miss Aim Lawrence, a native of North Carolina. In 1859 Mr. Willoughby returned to Jasper count}' and commenced improving the farm on which he now lives, and was happy and prosperous at the breaking out of the war. Though born and reared in a slave state and nurtured in proslavery principles, he was never in favor of the doctrine of slavery, and opposed by voice and vote the ordinance of secession, which course made him many bitter political enemies, consequently his property was raided and his life repeatedly threatened, and he was hunted like a criminal for months. During the occupation of the country by the Second Oliio Cavalry, he succeeded in moving his family and part of his live stock within the Union lines near Jeiferson City, where he became a member of Company F, Fortythird Regiment, E. M. M., and participated in may scouts, skirmishes, and the last campaign against Price in his last raid through Missouri. He returned to the ruins of his home in Jasper county in Sept., 1865, and assisted in the reorganization of the county, and has since held numerous offices of honor and trust in the county. His family consists of four daughters and five sons. His farm consists of 239 acres of as good land as Jasper county can boast of; 125 acres are in cultivation and well improved. Mr. Willoughby is a highly respected and valuable citizen of the county.